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She felt that her brother-in-law was very wretched,
and she was most anxious to relieve him. Colonel Osborne did not
stay long, and then Nora went upstairs to her sister.
Louis Trevelyan felt that he had disgraced himself. He had meant
to have been strong, and he had, as he knew, been very weak. He
had meant to have acted in a high-minded, honest, manly manner;
but circumstances had been so untoward with him, that on looking
at his own conduct, it seemed to him to have been mean, and almost
false and cowardly. As the order for the exclusion of this hated man
from his house had been given, he should at any rate have stuck to
the order. At the moment of his vacillation he had simply intended
to make things easy for his wife; but she had taken advantage of
his vacillation, and had now clearly conquered him. Perhaps he
respected her more than he had done when he was resolving, three
or four days since, that he would be the master in his own house;
but it may be feared that the tenderness of his love for her had
been impaired.


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